Machine Intelligence Comes to Content Creation
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Machine Intelligence Comes to Content Creation

September 27, 2017Los Angeles, California

A half-day forum about how content recognition, speech to text, natural language processing, machine learning, deep learning, and AI are poised to impact content creation.

Tech and content demos, panels, presentations and 360-degree discussions were about: What are the new machine intelligence powered technologies and tools for content creation and how can we improve them? What repetitive and time-consuming tasks will they eliminate, and how can they bolster the creative process? What challenges will we face integrating machine intelligence into workflows and how can we ameliorate them? How will machine intelligence alter job descriptions, staffing and crewing and how can the industry get ready for the transition? What new forms of content will machine intelligence enable?

Target Audience

Film and TV studio, mini-studio, network, OTT executives and technologists working in production and post; editorial, visual effects and postproduction facility executives and technologists; leading filmmakers working on set, and in editorial, visual effects and post; executives and technologists at hardware and software companies.

Tech and content demos, panels, presentations and 360-degree discussions were about: What are the new machine intelligence powered technologies and tools for content creation and how can we improve them? What repetitive and time-consuming tasks will they eliminate, and how can they bolster the creative process? What challenges will we face integrating machine intelligence into workflows and how can we ameliorate them? How will machine intelligence alter job descriptions, staffing and crewing and how can the industry get ready for the transition? What new forms of content will machine intelligence enable?

Target Audience

Film and TV studio, mini-studio, network, OTT executives and technologists working in production and post; editorial, visual effects and postproduction facility executives and technologists; leading filmmakers working on set, and in editorial, visual effects and post; executives and technologists at hardware and software companies.

Speakers and participants

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Lysa Banks

Head, Technical Strategy & Engineering, IBM Watson Media

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Yves Bergquist

CEO, Novamente / Project Director, Data & Analytics, ETC

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Linda Borgeson

SVP, Feature Post Production, Walt Disney Studios

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Norman Hollyn

Editor & Professor, USC School of Cinematic Arts

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Eric Iverson

CIO, Creative Artists Agency (CAA)

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Rev Lebaredian

VP, GameWorks & Lightspeed Studios, Nvidia

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Gray Marshall

DI Colorist & Recovering VFX Supervisor

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Erick Moen

Research Associate, Center for Cyber-Physical Systems & the Internet of Things, USC

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Jovan Popovic

Sr. Principal Scientist, Adobe Systems

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Usman Shakeel

Worldwide Technology Leader, M & E, Amazon Web Services

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Daniel De la Rosa

Director, Film Production Technologies, Universal Pictures

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Mark Raudonis

SVP Post Production, Bunim-Murray

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Jason Brahms

Managing Partner & CEO, Video Gorillas

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Jean Bolot

VP, Research and Innovation, Technicolor Research Center

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Amit Pande

Project Management Lead, Google Cloud

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Dr. Bart Andrew Kosko

Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Engineering and Law, USC Gould School of Law

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Debajyoti (Deb) Ray

CTO, End Cue

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Jeffrey Wike

SVP, CTO, DreamWorks Animation

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Harry Yoon

Editor

Event partners

Hosting

BluescapeHaworth

Supporting

Crawford Media ServicesExpert System